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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Social Alienation

were outcasts from the beginning largely due to her mother Annettes social displacement as a native of Martinique. The memories o...

Money and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

that he wants to pay her for any liberties he has taken with her. We, the reader, clearly see this as something of a payment to a ...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Short Story Characters in Gilman, Poe, and Bierce

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

Emma Bovary Characterization by Gustave Flaubert

to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...

Richard Wagner's Die Walkure

journey at once. However, before she can leave, Frika, Wotans wife enters the scene. Bruenhilde learns that Hundings marriage righ...

Toni Cade Bambara's Sylvia and John Updike's Sammy

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

William Donohue Ellis' The Bounty Lands

physically and psychologically. However, there generally enters into the storyline a guide of some sort which is the archetype of ...

Priest 1995 Film by Antonia Bird

go around changing the rules because they dont suit you. Theres just sin" (Kowal, 1995, p. PG). It becomes quite apparent that i...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Faithfulness

we learn that she began to take an interest in Catholicism, but this opportunity to adopt a genuine faith soon gave way to a passi...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and the Importance of the Financial Contract Between Krogstad and Nora Helmer

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

Oedipus and Hamlet Characterizations

his mother, he fulfills the prophesy. As Oedipus tells the story, one gets the sense that he is more than just a character. He is ...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Prospero

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...

Blindness of Shakespeare Characters Gloucester, King Lear, and Othello

jealousy. His inherent nature does not want him to believe such lies. We see this throughout the story as he is constantly confuse...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Linda Loman

for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...

Depiction of Female Characters in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

knowledge and hands; while Werther kills himself with a pistol because he cannot stand to share the same lifetime with the woman w...

Richard the Third by William Shakespeare and Lady Anne's Wooing

must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...

Nora Helmer in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen'

more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...

Dave Pelzer's The Lost Boy

not large enough and therefore in these situations, generally speaking, those who abuse the system tend to sponsor or foster a gre...

Gulliver's Development

first he must prove himself worthy of trusting: "My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperor and his court, ...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Tragic Hero and Sympathy for William Shakespeare's Othello

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

Family as a Theme in Alcott's Novel, Little Women

Little Women centers on the four March sisters; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy; all of whom are proper young ladies with a proper...

Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The Virgin Mary, Lady Bercilak and Morgan le Fay in “Sir Gawain and the Knight”

At the conclusion of the poem, the Green Knight informs Gawain that his actions were the direct result of the commands of the conn...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...

Othello's Downfall

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

Antigone Character Analysis

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...